1st US customer for 777-300ER

Ive allways wondered why its Taken the American Carriers this long to pick up on the 777-300ER Especially after its fantastic Sucess Abroad!

Too Big, Too big, too big.

The -300 basically carries 90% of the payload of a 747, and AA had none of those, NW (now Delta) had only 16. United had quite a few 747’s at one time, but their fleet has been shrinking for the last 10 years. In general, all of the American Carriers have been building frequency and downsizing capacity for quite some time now, thus all the 767’s in service, 772s and 330s to a lesser extent, and no 380 orders in the states at all.

This is ‘chicken feed’ in comparison to the Chinese order but it’s still 2 more..

This is ‘chicken feed’ in comparison to the Chinese order but it’s still 2 more Boeing 777-300ERs in the ‘bag’.;)

American Airlines becomes the first U.S. airline to order the 777-300ER

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1586

It all adds up in the long run for Boeing.:D

Moderator please merge I missed seeing Andy’s post on the same topic already – apologies.
Jay

1. Not enough money.
2. Not enough money to start routes to cater for such an aircraft.
3. Not enough money.

Ive allways wondered why its Taken the American Carriers this long to pick up on the 777-300ER Especially after its fantastic Sucess Abroad!

Didn’t see that coming!

Thats good news. Should look great in that all metallic finish!